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...doubts and arguments underscore the immense gamble Clinton was taking in pushing the Haiti confrontation to a crunch. By common consent in Washington, he was risking his presidency on the outcome -- and he would not necessarily win even if Carter and friends could persuade Cedras and friends to depart quietly, or even if a U.S. invasion were to succeed quickly with minimal loss of life. Either development might relieve the immediate crisis but raise the ante for the U.S. to help foster enough of a stable democracy in the unhappy island nation to prove it was not all in vain...
...more than anything else, the current crisis can be traced to the President's capitulation to an unarmed rent-a-mob protesting the arrival of a U.S. warship last October. When the Harlan County turned away from Port-au-Prince, the junta was emboldened to break its promise to depart voluntarily...
Alas, all FOPers did depart after a night of mental and physical preparation. 314 first-years, loaded down with their frame packs, boarded nine buses and two vans for a week in the wilderness...
...said the U.S. had "exhausted every available alternative" to military action, and he was "sorry" about opinion polls that suggest Americans overwhelmingly oppose the move. Speculation is rampant in the capital that the President will use tomorrow's speech to set a deadline for Haiti's military junta to depart...
...Depart from Baltics...